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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“What kind of monsters deserved such treatment, such rage and contempt? Vampires, yes, but also the bastard sons, the unbaptized ones, the inhabitants of other regions, the sodomites and those careless souls who allowed a black cat to jump over their dead bodies. In short: anyone. Anyone could be considered a monster. And monsters were assassinated with impunity. Didn’t you know? Didn’t we all know? The grownups who hushed themselves to protect the children; the children who, without knowing how, discovered they were not safe from the darkness and death?”
― José Luis Zárate, The Route of Ice and Salt

“The thought that I was perhaps one of those women destined to a life of unrequited love filled me with a pleasant, bitter melancholy.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Now my sisters and I no longer lie around in the hay talking. We aren't all in the same place the way we were last year and other years. And when we happen to be together it's as if there is a new awkwardness, as if we had betrayed one another by doing our own thing.

Certainly some day the awkwardness will pass, though time will never undo the betrayal.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers